BLUTE, _s._ An action; used in a bad sense. _A fuil blute_, a foolish action, S. B. perhaps the same with _Blout_, q. v.
BOAKIE, _s._ A sprite, a hobgoblin, Aberd. Shetl.
Norw. _bokje_, Isl. _bocke_, _bokki_, vir grandis et magnificus. In Sanscrit _buka_ is the name of an evil spirit. O. Teut. _bokene_, phantasma, spectrum.
BOAL, BOLE, _s._
1. A square aperture in the wall of a house, for holding small articles; a small press generally without a door; S. This is most common in cottages.
_Ramsay._
2. A perforation through the wall of a house, for occasionally giving air or light; usually with a wooden shutter instead of a pane of glass, S.
BOARDTREES, _s. pl._ A term used for the plank on which a corpse is stretched; S. B.
_To_ BOAST, BOIST, _v. a._ To threaten.
V. ~Boist~.
_To_ BOB, BAB, _v. n._ To dance, S.
_Herd._
BOB, _s._ Gust, blast.
V. ~Bub~.
BOB, _s._
1. A bunch; used as synon. with _cow_, S.
_Priests of Peblis._
2. The same word, pronounced _bab_, is used for a bundle of flowers, a nosegay.
S. Fr. _bube_, a bunch; Isl. _bobbe_, a knot.
BOB, _s._ A mark, a but, S.; either q. a small bunch set up as a mark, or, from the sense of the E. v., something to strike at.
BOB, _s._ A taunt, a scoff, S. B.
Teut. _babb-en_, to prate; Isl. _komenn i bobba_, os correptum, _at bobsa_, babare (to bark,) canum vox est. Su. G. _babe_, sermo inconditus.
BOBBY, _s._ A grandfather, S. B.
_Ross._
BOBBYN, _s._ The seed-pod of birch, Loth.
Fr. _bubon_, a great bunch.
_Evergreen._
BOBBINS, _s._ The water-lily, S. B. _Bobbins_ are properly the seed-vessels.
V. ~Cambie-leaf~.
BOCE; Burel, Watson's Coll. ii. 26.
V. ~Boss~.
_To_ BOCK, _v. a._ To vomit.
V. ~Bok~.
BOCK-BLOOD, _s._ A spitting, or throwing up of blood.
_Polwart._
BOD, _s._ A person of small size, a term generally applied, somewhat contemptuously, to one who is dwarfish, although of full age, S.
_To_ BODE, _v. a._ To proffer, often as implying the idea of some degree of constraint. "He did na merely offer, but he _boded_ it on me;" S.
BODEN, _part. pa._ Preferred.
BODE, BOD, _s._ An offer made in order to a bargain, a proffer, S.
_Ramsay._